Pete Carroll declines to say whom he’s asked for Super Bowl advice

Summary of 23 articles · Updated Jan 30, 2014

This is Pete Carroll’s first Super Bowl as a head coach. Here is what Carroll said about all that on Monday: Watch Pete Carroll during warm-ups on Sunday. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll agrees with Goodell that the league needs to follow the lead of the medi… (more)cal community in order to find ways to take the best care of players. Ask him if this New York/New Jersey Super Bowl represents a full-circle NFL journey, and Carroll rambles: “I hadn’t thought that. But I will for you right now. No, I don’t feel like that. Now, he didn’t come out and say that players should be allowed to use it even for medicinal purposes! but he did kind of back some comments the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, made about marijuana last week, Goodell talking about its possible use someday for treatment of concussions, if science backed that treatment.

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Peyton Manning may be the best quarterback ever at seeing what the opposing defense is doing and getting the ball away before the pass rush gets to him. Seahawks coach Pete Carroll says that if they’re going to beat the Broncos on Sunday, they’re going …

Why can’t more NFL coaches be like Seattle’s Pete Carroll?

NEWARK, N.J. – If anyone thinks Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is the least bit tense for his first Super Bowl, linebacker Heath Farwell has a story. In the first team meeting of the week, Carroll let his players know it would be business as usual. Well, a…

NFLN survey/popular coach: Chiefs

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Andy Reid received 22 votes and finished tied for fifth place with Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots as the head coach players would most like to work for in ESPN's NFL Nation Confidential survey. A lot of Chiefs seem to enj…

NFLN survey/popular coach: Falcons

When I asked players inside the Atlanta Falcons locker room which coach they would most like to play for other than Mike Smith, most all of them came up with the same answer: Pete Carroll. They talked about how "cool" Carroll was and how much …

NFLN survey/popular coach: Vikings

Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, who was voted the coach players most want to play for in ESPN's NFL Nation confidential survey, got the same kind of affirmation in the Minnesota Vikings' locker room. Five of the 10 players surveyed said they'd like…

NFLN survey/popular coach: Bengals

CINCINNATI -- Marvin Lewis may currently be the second-longest tenured head coach with one team, but Super Bowl-contending coach Pete Carroll is the one NFL players want to play for the most. In an anonymous survey conducted this season by ESPN.com's 32…

NFLN survey/popular coach: Chargers

Asked which head coach would you most like to play for as part of the NFL Nation Confidential player survey, Mr. Happy, Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, took home honors with 71 votes (22.5 percent), followed by Pittsburgh Steelers head coach M…

Last week, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that the league could change its position on marijuana use by players if medical studies determine that its use can help players dealing with concussions. Plenty of players and others already use it to help…

Pete Carroll has strong motivation to win where he started

Before Seahawks coach Pete Carroll took the job in Seattle, he coached at USC. Before that, he coached the Patriots. Before that, 20 years ago, he spent one year coaching the Jets. A promising season evaporated in a fake spike by Dan Marino, and Carroll…

Pete Carroll was always great copy even when his teams in the pros weren’t, when he couldn’t get into a Super Bowl without a ticket. So it should have surprised no one that Carroll could show up at a Super Bowl in New York and manage to give us a headli…

Pete Carroll praises John Schneider for drafting Russell Wilson

When Seahawks coach Pete Carroll talks to other NFL coaches, they often tell him how lucky he was to get quarterback Russell Wilson in the third round of the 2012 NFL draft — and they tell Carroll that they were hoping they could draft Wilson. “It’s rea…

Seahawks’ Pete Carroll, now a Super Bowl coach, reflects on time with Jets

Pete Carroll laments Jets win that got away

Welcome to the Super Bowl, coach. Now about that game you lost 20 years ago. ... That's pretty much how it went Sunday night for Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, who arrived in New Jersey and -- eight questions into his first news conference -- was …

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Pete says Sanchez will be 'better than ever'

NEWARK, N.J. -- Mark Sanchez didn't receive Pete Carroll's blessing when he left USC as an underclassman, but he received an endorsement Tuesday from his old college coach. The Seattle Seahawks' coach, speaking at Super Bowl XLVIII media day, believes t…

NFLN survey/popular coach: Browns

The Cleveland Browns agreed with the rest of the NFL when asked what coach -- other than their own -- they’d like to play for. Pete Carroll of Seattle won the vote for the league and for the Browns. Carroll is know for his intense teams that fly around …

No Hard Feelings: Two decades after being fired by Jets, Carroll is back in NJ

Pete Carroll has every right to come back to New York with a grudge. But it’s nearly 20 years later and in the all that time since the Jets fired him after a one-and-done season, he’s won two national championships at Southern Cal and now has the Seahaw…